Bataan

General Tomoyuki Yamashita, known as “Tiger of Malaya” and “the Beast of Bataan,” was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War 2. He also was the supreme commander of all Japanese forces located in the Philippines in which he would later soon be known for the most remarkable single victory of the entire (Pacific) war – the fall of Singapore. Leading the invasion of Malaya and Singapore for around two months ended with Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister, to…

beatings in which the injuries were so severe they often led to death and on top of the beatings the Americans were humiliated by public rape and torture. Americans who were prisoners were singled out for special brutality by the Japanese as payback for Bataan (Philippines). The American Prisoners of War were frequently shipped to different P.O.W camps located around the Philippines, one of the places they were shipped to was Palawan. On December 14, Japanese aircraft reported that they saw an…

Aunt Tess was more or less needing an answer… the idea of marriage suited him well enough so that he owned it as his.” (195) This drives with the attention that even in the beginning she didn't have control and let others decide her life. After the Bataan…

In the first week of August 1945, the world saw the first and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. The United States use of the atomic bombs on Japan, One of the most controversial decisions in history, resulted in the death of over 130,000 people and caused un-predicted effects on physical health and economic relations upon the world. Historians contrast the effects brought upon the world and justifications for using the atomic bombs as a solution to ending the war. The atomic bombs changed…

Douglas Macarthur was a general who studied for years on how to lead an army and ended the Second World War. Thesis: Douglas MacArthur was a good man who was dedicated, courageous, loyal, and last but not least he was brave. He went to West Point for 4 years and had the highest academic record in the history of West Point. Douglas was a brave man. “Despite advance warning, the Japanese invasion of December 1941 badly defeated MacArthur's forces in the Philippines.” “MacArthur was determined to…

My target date was September 21, 1945. This date was shortly after the end of World War II. Many of the news articles and advertisements in the newspaper were overflowing with reports about the war and detailed post-war life and the nation’s recovery to some form of normality. Since this is referenced from a Georgia newspaper the articles are specific to things that were going on in the state of Georgia during this time. I pulled and discussed some of the articles from the paper that pertained…

Two atomic bombs destroyed the Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when two U.S. planes dropped them from above. The bombs, Little Boy and Fat Boy, were intended to end World War II. The annihilation left by Fat Boy, over Nagasaki, made Japan decide to withdraw from the war, thus ending it. The U.S. Navy never authorized the salvage of the USS Arizona was because it is considered a war grave. USS Arizona was destroyed due to a magazine explosion after being hit by a Japanese bomb (Doc A).…

Summary Chinese-Americans found themselves in the middle of racism even though they weren 't considered the enemy. The enemy being the Japanese. Many Chinese-Americans, found work hard to come by. Many Chinese-Americans even contemplated returning to their home country after being schooled so they would not have to face the racial discrimination. However, Chinese-Americans found the opportunity to find work and fight against the enemy. While the Chinese-American men and women went off to fight…

World War II impacted the American film industry through the influences of the war effort. Films that were made during this time often worked in line with this effort by projecting messages of unity, where racial and class differences amongst Americans were put on the backburner in order to fight one common and external enemy. Scholar Anna Everett asserts that during the war the film industry temporarily suspended its usual racist and stereotypical depictions of Black Americans for the war…

would set the Japanese back enough for the American troops to regain a foothold in the Pacific. The Japanese had already conquered many of the small islands surrounding its mainland, including Guam, Cavite, North Borneo, Rabaul, Singapore, Java, and Bataan.…